Healthy Romantic Dinner for Two
The most romantic date night in, healthy dinner recipe. Garlic ghee sauce drizzled over lobster tails, the perfect crisp on the outside, soft on the inside baked potatoes, and balsamic roasted brussel sprouts with candied pecans.
Ingredients
Candied Pecans
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup
Brussel Sprouts
- 3 Tbsp avocado oil
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Baked potato
- 2 organic russet potatoes
- avocado oil
- sea salt & pepper
Garlic Ghee sauce
- 3 Tbsp ghee
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
Lobster Tails
- 2 wild lobster tails
- garlic ghee sauce
- sea salt to taste
- garlic powder to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Place chopped pecans in a bowl and season with cinnamon, smoked paprika, sea salt, and maple syrup.
- Spread on a parchment-lined baking tray, and bake for 10-12 minutes until golden and fragrant. Set aside.
- Thoroughly wash and dry potatoes.
- Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet, and generously coat with avocado oil, sea salt, and pepper.
- Poke several holes into both sides of potatoes with a fork. Bake for about an hour or until the fork can easily pierce through the center of the potatoes.
- Wash brussel sprouts, cut off ends, and chop into quarters.
- Drizzle brussels with avocado oil, and season with sea salt and pepper. Place on a parchment-lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes.
- When brussels are done roasting, drizzle with balsamic vinegar, and toss with candied pecans.
- Melt ghee and minced garlic in a microwave-safe bowl at 30-second increments. Mix in lemon juice, and set aside.
- Cut lobster tails down the center of the shell.
- Use fingers to gently separate meat from the shell, and slightly pull apart the shell.
- Wedge your fingers underneath the meat of the lobster, and pull it up and out of the shell. Resting it on top of the shell. Rinse off any shell fragments.
- Drizzle garlic ghee sauce over lobster, and sprinkle with sea salt and garlic powder. Place on a baking sheet and broil in the oven on high for 5-7 minutes.
- The lobster is ready when the shell is bright red, and the meat is no longer translucent.
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